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Court Finally Sets Free Ugandan Scholar ‘Stella Nyanzi’
Ugandan sexuality Scholar, medical anthropologist, feminist, queer rights activist, and public health Dr. Stella Nyanzi collapsed at the International War Crimes Division of the High Court in Kampala on Thursday 20 February 2020 minutes after the judge ordered for her release from Luzira Prison where she has been for months. Dr Nyanzi was last year…
Shock As One Of The Intruders In Parliament Is A Presidential Aspirant
Uganda Police and Electoral commission has confirmed that one of the two men who attacked MPs yesterday afternoon during a plenary session, is a presidential aspirant. Charles Mutasa Kafeero, a member of a pressure group -the Red Top Brigade is one the 20 presidential aspirants who have been cleared by the Electoral Commission to embark…
State House Health Unit Arrests Two Tanzanians In Kampala Over Theft Of Gov’t Drugs
The State House House Monitoring Unit together with sister Security operatives has arrested and detained two Tanzanian nationals who were allegedly found with stolen government drugs worth Shs 35m that were meant to be taken to Tanzania. Addressing journalists at their offices in Kampala on Wednesday, February, 19, 2020, Dr Jackson Ojera Abusu, the…
Police Arrests Deadly Key Suspect Of Bugiri Sheikh Murder, Killer Gun Recovered
The Uganda Police task team investigating the murder by shooting of Sheikh Mutumba Masudi, which occurred on the February 14, 2020, have tracked down and arrested the prime suspect behind the incident. The suspect has been identified as Mugoya Abiyasad, a supervisor of SGA private security company. According to the Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga, the…
Trouble Looms As BoU Lawyer ‘Makubuya’ Is Dragged To Court Over Theft
Former Deputy Katikiro of Buganda and Bank Of Uganda lawyer Apollo Nelson Makubuya is in hot soup following allegations of stealing land from the former Executive Director of the Kabaka Foundation, Ambassador Matia Lubega. The land in question is situated on Block 268 Plot 475 Kyadondo in the upscale Lubowa neighborhood along Entebbe Road valued…
Top Gov’t Officials In Hot Soup Over Swindling Shs 267bn Aid Money
Ugandan officials could have stashed away a whopping USD 73M (UGX267B) of the aid money from the World Bank between 1990 and 2009, a new research paper suggests. The controversial paper written by researchers from the Norwegian Business School, University of Copenhagen, and The World Bank observed that every time the institution released money to…
Attorney General, Legal Committee Lock Horns Over Opposition Amendment Bill
The Attorney General William Byaruhanga on Wednesday February 19, 2020 came under fire for failing to present a response on a raft of constitutional amendments proposed by the Opposition under the Constitutional (Amendment) Bill, 2019. Byaruhanga together with the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Ephraim Kamuntu were expected to avail the Legal and Parliamentary…
Why Is Rwanda So Obsessed With Gen.Kandiho, Col. Kaka
Genesis On May, 13, 2015, a Burundian Military officer Godefroid Niyombare declared a coup d’état, announcing on a privately owned local radio that President “Pierre Nkurunziza has been dismissed”. President Nkurunziza was at the time in the neighboring Tanzania attending the 13th Extraordinary Summit of the East African Community Heads of State, which had been…
Flying Squad Arrests Gulu’s Notorious Thug With Deadly AK47
Police Flying Squad in Gulu has arrested and detained One Onencan Fred over alledged Possession of an illegal fire arm. The arrest followed reports from scared residents that Onencan who had just been released from Amaru Central Police Station had an AK47 riffle in his house. The suspect had earlier been arrested for assaulting a…
Interpol’s Most Wanted Chinese National Escape From Uganda Police Cells
The police have put Shs5M bounty on Chinese national, Gao Yudong who escaped from Kololo Police Station between January 18, 2020 and February 12, 2020. Police spokesperson Fred Enanga revealed that Yudong entered Uganda from Beijing on January 17, 2020. As soon as he landed at Entebbe International Airport, a RED notice was issued by…